mouse wheel

[vhg119]

how do i get the wheel working again?
mandrake automatically sets it up but redhat doesnt.

my system:
Redhat 7.2;
Logitech ps/2 wheel mouse.
X4.1 (i think)

thank you

[jdctx]

I'm lazy so I just run xf86config. The only problem is you have to go through configuring keyboard, monitor,video ect.. I'm sure there's an easier way. Perhaps someone could tell us

[Jomboni]

The mouse portion of your XF86Config-4 file should look like this:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"That will make it work with some programs - the ones that have built in mousewheel support. For programs that don't, you have to tell them how to use the wheel. You need a file called .Xdefaults in your home directory. Mine looks like this:emacs*Background: DarkSlateGray
emacs*Foreground: Wheat
emacs*pointerColor: Orchid
emacs*cursorColor: Orchid
emacs*bitmapIcon: on
emacs*font: fixed
emacs.geometry: 80x25

Seyon.modems: /dev/modem

xterm*background: Black
xterm*foreground: Wheat
xterm*cursorColor: Orchid
xterm*reverseVideo: false
xterm*scrollBar: true
*VT100*colorBDMode: on
xterm*reverseWrap: true
xterm*font: fixed
xterm*boldfont: fixed
xterm*fullCursor: true
xterm*saveLines: 2000
xterm*scrollTtyOutput: off
xterm*scrollKey: on
*VT100*colorMode: on
*VT100*dynamicColors: on
xterm*titleBar: false
xterm*VT100.Translations: #override\n\
<Key>BackSpace: string(0x7F)\n\
<Key>Delete: string(0x1b) string("[3~")\n\
<Key>Home: string(0x1b) string("[1~")\n\
<Key>End: string(0x1b) string("[4~")\n\
<KeyPress>Prior : scroll-back(1,page)\n\
<KeyPress>Next : scroll-forw(1,page)\n\
Ctrl<Key>Prior: string(0x1b) string("[40~")\n\
Ctrl<Key>Next: string(0x1b) string("[41~")


xterm_color*VT100.Translations: #override\n\
<Key>BackSpace: string(0x7F)\n\
<Key>Delete: string(0x1b) string("[3~")\n\
<Key>Home: string(0x1b) string("[1~")\n\
<Key>End: string(0x1b) string("[4~")\n\
<KeyPress>Prior : scroll-back(1,page)\n\
<KeyPress>Next : scroll-forw(1,page)\n\
Ctrl<Key>Prior: string(0x1b) string("[40~")\n\
Ctrl<Key>Next: string(0x1b) string("[41~")

nxterm*VT100.Translations: #override <Key>BackSpace: string(0x7F)\n\
<Key>Delete: string(0x1b) string("[3~")\n\
<Key>Home: string(0x1b) string("[1~")\n\
<Key>End: string(0x1b) string("[4~")\n\
Ctrl<Key>Prior: string(0x1b) string("[40~")\n\
Ctrl<Key>Next: string(0x1b) string("[41~")
xterm_color*background: Black
xterm_color*foreground: Wheat
xterm_color*cursorColor: Orchid
xterm_color*reverseVideo: false
xterm_color*scrollBar: true
xterm_color*saveLines: 5000
xterm_color*reverseWrap: true
xterm_color*font: fixed
xterm_color.geometry: 80x25+20+20
xterm_color*fullCursor: true
xterm_color*scrollTtyOutput: off
xterm_color*scrollKey: on
xterm_color*titleBar: false

!# Scrolling on wheel mouse: half a page normally, line per line with shift
xterm*VT100.translations: #override\n\
Shift<Btn4Down>,<Btn4Up>:scroll-back(1,line)\n\
Shift<Btn5Down>,<Btn5Up>:scroll-forw(1,line)\n\
Ctrl<Btn4Down>,<Btn4Up>:scroll-back(1,page)\n\
Ctrl<Btn5Down>,<Btn5Up>:scroll-forw(1,page)\n\
<Btn4Down>,<Btn4Up>:scroll-back(1,halfpage)\n\
<Btn5Down>,<Btn5Up>:scroll-forw(1,halfpage)\n\

!# In the scrollbar we map buttons 5 & 4 to 1 and 2 otherwise, core dump
!# This will move proportionnaly to cursor position but we dont know how to
!# program the same exact behavior as in the text widget.
xterm*VT100.Scrollbar.translations: #override\n\
<Btn5Down>: StartScroll(Forward)\n\
<Btn4Down>: StartScroll(Backward)\n\

!# Scrolling on wheel mouse: half a page normally, line per line with shift
xterm_color*VT100.translations: #override\n\
Shift<Btn4Down>,<Btn4Up>:scroll-back(1,line)\n\
Shift<Btn5Down>,<Btn5Up>:scroll-forw(1,line)\n\
Ctrl<Btn4Down>,<Btn4Up>:scroll-back(1,page)\n\
Ctrl<Btn5Down>,<Btn5Up>:scroll-forw(1,page)\n\
<Btn4Down>,<Btn4Up>:scroll-back(1,halfpage)\n\
<Btn5Down>,<Btn5Up>:scroll-forw(1,halfpage)\n\

rxvt*background: Black
rxvt*foreground: Wheat
rxvt*cursorColor: Orchid
rxvt*reverseVideo: false
rxvt*scrollBar: true
rxvt*reverseWrap: true
rxvt*font: fixed
rxvt*fullCursor: true
rxvt*scrollTtyOutput: off
rxvt*scrollKey: on

!# In the scrollbar we map buttons 5 & 4 to 1 and 2 otherwise, core dump
!# This will move proportionnaly to cursor position but we dont know how to
!# program the same exact behavior as in the text widget.
xterm_color*VT100.Scrollbar.translations: #override\n\
<Btn5Down>: StartScroll(Forward)\n\
<Btn4Down>: StartScroll(Backward)\n\

!## Athena text widgets
*Paned.Text.translations: #override\n\
Shift<Btn4Down>,<Btn4Up>: scroll-one-line-down()\n\
Shift<Btn5Down>,<Btn5Up>: scroll-one-line-up()\n\
Ctrl<Btn4Down>,<Btn4Up>: previous-page()\n\
Ctrl<Btn5Down>,<Btn5Up>: next-page()\n\
~Shift~Ctrl~Alt<Btn4Down>,<Btn4Up>:scroll-one-line-down()scroll-one-line-down()scroll-one-line-down()scroll-one-line-down()scroll-one-line-down()\n\
~Shift~Ctrl~Alt<Btn5Down>,<Btn5Up>:scroll-one-line-up()scroll-one-line-up()scroll-one-line-up()scroll-one-line-up()scroll-one-line-up()\n\

!## Athena table of contents, for toc widgets of xrn & xmh
*toc.Translations: #override\n\
Shift<Btn4Down>,<Btn4Up>: scroll-one-line-down()\n\
Shift<Btn5Down>,<Btn5Up>: scroll-one-line-up()\n\
Ctrl<Btn4Down>,<Btn4Up>: previous-page()\n\
Ctrl<Btn5Down>,<Btn5Up>: next-page()\n\
~Shift~Ctrl~Alt<Btn4Down>,<Btn4Up>:scroll-one-line-down()scroll-one-line-down()scroll-one-line-down()scroll-one-line-down()scroll-one-line-down()\n\
~Shift~Ctrl~Alt<Btn5Down>,<Btn5Up>:scroll-one-line-up()scroll-one-line-up()scroll-one-line-up()scroll-one-line-up()scroll-one-line-up()\n\

!## NETSCAPE

Netscape*blinkingEnabled: False
Netscape*useStderrDialog: False
Netscape*useStdoutDialog: False
!Netscape*dontSaveGeometryPrefs: True
!Netscape*ignoreGeometryPrefs: True
Netscape*noAboutSplash: True
Netscape*toolBar.search.isEnabled: false
Netscape*toolBar.destinations.isEnabled: false
Netscape*toolBar.print.isEnabled: false
Netscape*toolBar.myshopping.isEnabled: false
Netscape*toolBar.viewSecurity.isEnabled: false


! ================================================== ==========================
! Fonts in the widgets.
! These fonts are all down in Motif land, and thus are not controlled by the
! font selector on the Preferences dialog. That applies only to fonts in
! the document display area.
! ================================================== ==========================
!
Netscape*fontList: nexus

Netscape*XmTextField.fontList: nexus

!This stuff fixes up mouse-wheel scrolling...
Netscape*drawingArea.translations: #replace \
<Btn1Down>: ArmLink() \n\
<Btn2Down>: ArmLink() \n\
~Shift<Btn1Up>: ActivateLink() \n\
~Shift<Btn2Up>: ActivateLink(new-window) \
DisarmLink() \n\
Shift<Btn1Up>: ActivateLink(save-only) \
DisarmLink() \n\
Shift<Btn2Up>: ActivateLink(save-only) \
DisarmLink() \n\
<Btn1Motion>: DisarmLinkIfMoved() \n\
<Btn2Motion>: DisarmLinkIfMoved() \n\
<Btn3Motion>: DisarmLinkIfMoved() \n\
<Motion>: DescribeLink() \n\
<Btn3Down>: xfeDoPopup() \n\
<Btn3Up>: ActivatePopup() \n\
Ctrl<Btn4Down>: PageUp()\n\
Ctrl<Btn5Down>: PageDown()\n\
Shift<Btn4Down>: LineUp()\n\
Shift<Btn5Down>: LineDown()\n\
~Shift~Ctrl~Alt<Btn4Down>: LineUp()LineUp()LineUp()LineUp()LineUp()LineUp()\n \
~Shift~Ctrl~Alt<Btn5Down>: LineDown()LineDown()LineDown()LineDown()LineDown() LineDown()\n\
Alt<Btn4Down>: xfeDoCommand(forward)\n\
Alt<Btn5Down>: xfeDoCommand(back)\n

Netscape*globalNonTextTranslations: #override\n\
Shift<Btn4Down>: LineUp()\n\
Shift<Btn5Down>: LineDown()\n\
~Shift~Ctrl~Alt<Btn4Down>:LineUp()LineUp()LineUp() LineUp()LineUp()LineUp()\n\
~Shift~Ctrl~Alt<Btn5Down>:LineDown()LineDown()Line Down()LineDown()LineDown()LineDown()\n\
Alt<Btn4Down>: xfeDoCommand(forward)\n\
Alt<Btn5Down>: xfeDoCommand(back)\nJust save that text as .Xdefaults in your home directory and you should be good to go.

I got that file from some web site... I don't want to take credit for it. I lost the link, so if anybody has it they're welcome to post it!